Genesis 41:50–52
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is allergic to narrative. Or rather, our age is allergic to any narrative that it did not write for itself. We want to be the authors of our own stories, the captains of our own souls, and the result is a world full of very short, very boring, and ultimately meaningless autobiographies. But the Christian faith is grounded in a story, a grand narrative that began before time and will stretch into eternity. And in this story, God is the author, and His syntax is often surprising. He writes straight with what we perceive to be crooked lines. The story of Joseph is a master class in the grammar of God's providence. If you were to read Joseph's life in disjointed snapshots, it would appear to be a chaotic mess. He is the favored son, then a slave in a pit.